Amateur Photographer

Abbas

Abbas was a photographer who understood the crucial difference between fast and slow. Having worked at top speed for many years as a photojournalist, covering conflicts in Iran, Vietnam and Northern Ireland, he was struck by a comment by his fellow photographer Dennis Stock: ‘You won’t always be

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